Biology

Physiology

Bronzong looks like a big blue-green bell with two arms coming out of its sides. It has eyes at the bottom of its hollow body and a yoke attached at the top. Its face can be best described as being of a "Totem Pole" design; Bronzong has two round, red eyes with blue-green irises and a rectangular mouth with one visible row of square teeth.

Gender differences

Bronzong is a genderless Pokémon.

Special abilities

It has the power to summon rain clouds which earned it the nickname bringer of plentiful harvests.

Behavior

Habitat

The first known Bronzong was dug up at a construction site. Since, more Bronzong have been found living in dark caverns in high levels of Mt. Coronet, but quite rarely.

Trivia

Bronzong and its pre-evolution are the only Pokémon with the Ability Levitate that can have another Ability. However, Giratina can alternate between the Abilities Levitate and Pressure when it changes between its Altered Forme and Origin Forme.

Origin

Bronzong is based on a dōtaku, Japanese bells used to pray for good harvests. They are often decorated with patterns representing nature and were buried, occasionally with bronze mirrors and weapons, in isolated locations. Bronzong and the fact that it evolves from Bronzor also seems to be based on an old Japanese myth present in the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. The priests of Mugenyama wanted to forge a bell for their temple, so they asked the local women to donate their bronze mirrors for this purpose. A woman contributed her mirror, but later regretted it. Because of her repentance, the mirror wouldn't melt in the furnace until she killed herself. Before her suicide, she said that whoever would break the bell would be given great wealth by her ghost. A multitude of people tried to break the bell by ringing it furiously, so the tired priests managed to roll it down a hill into a swamp.

Name origin

Bronzong is a combination of bronze and gong (a type of musical instrument) or dong (the sound of a bell).

Dohtakun is a combination of 銅鐸 dōtaku (bronze bell) and どんどん dondon (the sound of a bell).

In other languages

Language

Title

Meaning

Japanese

ドータクン Dohtakun

From 銅鐸 dōtaku (bronze bell) and どんどん dondon (the sound of a bell)

French

Archeodong

From archeo- and the common gong dong noise

Spanish

Bronzong

Same as English name

German

Bronzong

Same as English name

Italian

Bronzong

Same as English name

Korean

동탁군 Dongtakgun

From 銅鐸 dōtaku, which sounds "dong tak" in Korean, and 군. 탁 tak also means the sound of hitting something hard.